The Grenada gazette., 1887-10-22
ISABEL'S BUSY DAY.
How Billy Baked and Bell Found
a Husband.

"Ive made pretty good afternoon
work Of it, said the city boarder.
You never would have known he
for the elegant young lady that dancet
in ''thc german" at DR.. Fay's las
winter-for the slight girl who took the
part of Juliet in the private theatrie'
ais that were gotten up to help build
the new hospital-for the dignilied
teacher in the Middle Grade of the
ThirIby Grammar School. She wore
Aunt Rhoda's Shaker bonnet, with a
brown ribbon tied under her chin, a
tiny checked shawl crossed on her
breast, and dark red calico gown.
buttoned with sober little circlets OF
mother-of-pearl, and she was seated in
mud-splashed country wagon, driv-
ing, probably, the oldest horse in the
county, with an assortment of gray
stone jars and Wicker-lidded baskets,
packed in wilted grass, behind her.
For Aunt Rhoda had sprained her
wrist, and Bell Barlow had volunteered
to drive TO Bannport and carry the
weekly assortment Of farm produce to
the good old lady's customers who
dwelt therein.
"lt'll be a dreadful accommodation
to me" said Aunt Rhoda; ''because the
spring chickens won't bring broiler
prices after this week, and the eggs
won't never be no frcshcr; and the
june buffers packed to the very top of
the crock, and the Falkners use a pow
erfUl sight o butter And Old Billy,
he won't run away nor nothin', and it's
jest pleasant days work for a spry
gal like you, Miss Barlow"
So Isabel Barlow set forth on thisun-
accustomed task, remembering that
she also desired to match a skein of
oliyc-grocn silk, purchase a few postage
stamps, and buy some chlorate of pot
ash lozengcs against next Sundays
solo in the choir.
"And here's fine lonl.h,o1. y soid
the old lady, bustling out after Bell
was safely enthroned on the buffalo
robc-coycrpd seat "I couIdn,, @;ya !,
to you afote, because l don't want
Ephraim to know i've o,t r,n,or a,t
at interest. He'd want to .oronior Il
all in swannin, ~, fn,,n, atJ ,m,..,-,
lottery tickets, Tbrra's t,ron,y Wv Ini 81
lars that Mrs Tjuue raia mo for tho
old red COW, Tnhdfn Ian,t m 49, o,"n ,no
know she's sold Un ro.I,nrs sha,.
out to pasture somewhere And tho
ten dollars I rot for hIoor-Lor,.ias an1
- w. vs. ""' "n'' you IL gather
rn7,,II LonI. :, r,i I1'os l no'i-ano II
obliaa1 '"T "r,i14 ~ : ~ ~ w ever so mucn
wn,,iJn,, r,aIa ,,'s 'I'' I,4 Va ), your way OF
1t,r"s a - ''l'mo i",o ~ ',,I, Ion''
Tb ~ o,,otI,, " a. !" 'o"9' sul'Fy' summer day;
a;oiomi, s ,Jt'4n'',s -, ,s, were nara 10 ma ana
Gnnu,. n''' o,5 w SuaI' a ',"o lne Guy ooarder
..nanion Noae.""sI s"'.. i 'naI dealings IN
,eaot,,on 9Th ,"o7 ,,,,. "",. ''u'N were not III
o sose'",i pto""c','e OF bliss But it
s.,a aa,''o ~ al emu ac ia't' ana Bell
~ slI''gtu q, up a, 'ne square steeple Of the
"" I io"n s nali' WnGFe q gllttering
prass lace contained the record of the
l'ours' s lh"I Were marked of by a pair
oi monster pIack hands
100 ia'e lor banking hours she
:, salu 10 herseii. "lf that old Mrs.
= aikner' VINO Keeps the Mechanics
House, hadn't detained me
so Aohs IN making change. Well,
never mlno. shall have to take the
money all home again to Mrs. Jen-
k'as; .,p
,,,,. no,'e, =, p,' 'hem ollls IN some safe
lI.'' l,,h', ,o; snr'l,y eonhselea MIS- Falkner.
' ,,rao,.a ,,'I ueal hefseli' generally ad-
,,a;as % o1ner people at the top OF her
,ha p,., c 'ons rue nome through
Ill. " vn,, ,';.s nM"i'p .,3 40. ioI q lone woman
A .", '' , ".'n an 'hat money.
.rrnoa , =. snoh,ns pipe on the steps
the"e e' ,rorss ~ ss"fe ,r a. inc CITY boarder at